Scaling Up Next Generation AI with Optics

Learn how optical networking is revolutionizing AI infrastructure scaling in this 21-minute conference talk from the Open Compute Project. Discover why companies are transitioning from electrical to optical networks to meet the growing demands of AI scale-up networking. Explore the specific benefits optical scale-up provides for both AI training and inference workloads, while examining the tradeoffs between different optical integration approaches including Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO), Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), and 3D Integrated solutions. Understand the potential role that the Open Compute Project can play in establishing open standards within the optical networking ecosystem for next-generation AI applications.